African American families | Batavia High School Media Center

My Jim

Ex-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck Finn when he learned he was to

African American families, African American women, fiction, Freedmen, Grandparent and child

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Mending the World

Collection of short stories and poems about young African Americans coming to terms with identity and family.

African American authors, African American families, American literature, Family, Literary collections

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The Wake of the Wind

J. California Cooper

Looks at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families in the post-Civil War South.

African American families, African Americans, fiction, Historical fiction, Texas

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Soldier

June Jordan

June Jordan chronicles the first twelve years of her life and discusses how her experiences during those years influenced her writing.

1936-, 20th century, African American families, African American poets, Biography

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